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Curious Helps Telesgop TV Bring Farming To Life
London - April 2002
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Welsh video post production facility Telesgop TV used to wait up to two days for a local graphics company to hand-draw the maps it needed to illustrate client's television programmes. But a chance encounter at last year's IBC exhibition in Amsterdam changed all that - and now they can produce broadcast quality maps in minutes.
Telesgop's encounter was with Curious Software, an innovative software company that was exhibiting at the show. Curious Software's map-creation package, Curious World Maps, was on display and was so good that it literally stopped Telesgop staff in their tracks.
"We are on our way to see another exhibitor when Curious Software's show reel caught our eye," says Telesgop's head of post production Trystan Rowlands. "Once we realised what the software could do, we were hooked. Here was a product that could transform our map-making capabilities by making the task incredibly easy and saving us enormous amounts of time."
Curious Software's Curious World Maps is fast becoming an industry standard because it enables graphic departments to create highly detailed, broadcast quality maps with ease. It has already been installed in many of the world's top broadcast graphics departments, including CNN, ABC, NBC, Sky and the BBC.
Telesgop, which post produces programmes for broadcasters including the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and the BBC, took delivery of its software in February 2002 and immediately put it to work on Ffermio, a weekly farming magazine programme it handles for S4C.
"The programme features news reports from around Europe and these need map illustrations to show where the action is taking place," says Rowlands. "Many stories break very quickly so there's no time to out-source the graphics work. We used to resort to filming the page of an Atlas, which was far from ideal. But with Curious World Maps we can produce broadcast-quality graphics almost instantly. You literally type in a place name and up comes a map, and then it's just a question of adapting the template until you get the look and style you want. It's so simple that all our editors are using it."
Telesgop intends to use the software to illustrate a number of other programmes, including one S4C that will track a local presenter from the facility's hometown, Llandeilo, as he travels around the world. The presenter's task is to follow the line of latitude that runs through the town, a journey that will take him across Europe, through Russia and eventually to Canada - and a Curious World Map will illustrate every place along the route.
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